Pokegen - Newbie Requesting Help

[Zerole]

Hi guys, I just got a hold of Pokemon SS and I was hoping I could get some help on making my team. I've read some of the FAQ and guides but I'm still confused about a couple things.

To begin, I just want to say that the goal of this is just to make my desired team and play the game all the way through so I don't have to worry about all the legality problems of facing other people (I.E. impossible movesets + 255 in all EVs). Anyway, below are some really specific and a few obvious (admittedly) questions I was hoping you guys could answer.

1) I'm trying to edit my entire party, when is the earliest that I can do this? I just tried replacing my Cyndaquil with a Dratini Egg as soon as I left Elm's lab and the game crashed but I don't know if this was a result of not having an actual Pokemon in the party or bad coding (entirely possible).

2) I was going to hatch my entire party from Eggs, but if I code it so that the Eggs are holding an item (Shell Bell specifically) will this mess things up? The last game I played was Gold/Silver and back then Eggs couldn't hold items.

3) What information can I ignore in Pokegen if I can choose to hatch my Pokemon from an Egg? For example, will the hatched Pokemon automatically obtain my Trainer/Secret IDs?

Thanks.

[Delta Blast Burn]

1) No actual Pokemon in your party.

2)Make them as eggs, hatch them, then give them items.

3)You can ignore experience, fateful encounter, and extra bytes.

Regarding TID/SID: if they don't, just open your save and edit them again, so that they do.

Edited November 2, 2010 by Delta Blast Burn
clarificatinon and some typos

[Zerole]

Thanks, I managed to get it working for the most part but I'm running into a small problem. For example, if I have my starter Pokemon in Party slot #1, it seems like Pokegen won't let me start editing/adding a Pokemon to slot #2?

[Kaphotics]

because you should always have one pokemon in slot 1, having only a slot 2 means you have 2 pokemon in your party, the first being Missingno with blank hex.

[Zerole]

No I mean, I don't need or want to use Pokegen on slot #1 because I already have a Pokemon there, is there a way that I can just edit slot #2 and so on? Or am I forced to edit everything?

I read the Pokegen FAQ and I know you can't edit for example, slots #3 and #5 without having a Pokemon in #1, 2, and 4.

[Codr]

I don't understand the confusion here. (Also, this should be in the PokeGen section.) You simply fill out Pokemon data, right click the second slot, and set it.

[Zerole]

The problem is it won't let me right click the slot #2 until I've added data for slot #1 but I don't want to change anything about slot #1.

On a slightly different note, is there anyway I can reduce the amount of egg cycles/steps if I choose to create an Egg? I looked everywhere but I'm not seeing any option.

[Bond697]

this doesn't make sense at all. if you had something in slot one, it would show up in pokegen. your save is corrupt or something. post it.

[Zerole]

Ah I think I understand the problem. This is my first time so I wasn't aware I had to load a save file.

[Codr]

That actually is a good point if you just want to generate a code for a party Pokemon without loading a save file first. I'll have to do something about that.

[Zerole]

Is there any way to reduce the number of steps it takes an Egg to hatch? I've looked as much as Google will allow me and I haven't been able to find anything.

[Codr]

Look at the happiness tooltip.

[Zerole]

Ah I see I was doing it wrong, I set the Happiness to 255 thinking it'd reduce the amount of steps. Thanks and sorry for all the newb questions.